Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP
Photo: TMP

Cityscape Sculpture, XXX, 2006

USA, 2006
Cecilia de Torres Gallery
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Slab-Built
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes: N/A
Lidya Buzio | 1948 – Present

Lidya Buzio is known for sculptural forms that retain earthenware slabs as part of the finished object. The forms and surfaces reference cityscapes and abstractions using a bright color palette.Her process began with earthenware slabs that she manipulated into abstract vessel forms or multi-piece, small scale sculptures. The surfaces of the pieces were burnished until they became smooth and then were painted using colored slips, reburnished and fired. Finally they were waxed. This resulted in the fresco-like surfaces Buzio sought in her work.

Buzio?s early exposure to Joaquin Torres-Garcia?s Constructivist Universalist painting had been an ongoing influence on her ceramics as was her time with Jose Collell studying painting and then ceramics.

In 1997 Buzio moved to the north fork of Long Island where the sea became a prominent motif; the New York skyline provided a background to images of boats, the sea and to abstractions that relied on color and surface. Frustrated by life in the ceramic world she began to build constructivist wooden sculptures in the 1990s, however, she soon returned to ceramics.

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Cecilia de Torres Gallery

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